PROGRAM OF THE 76 TH ANNUAL MEETING March 30−April 3, 2011 Sacramento, California THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Society for American Archaeology provides a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and discussion. The views expressed at the sessions are solely those of the speakers and the Society does not endorse, approve, or censor them. Descriptions of events and titles are those of the organizers, not the Society. Program of the 76th Annual Meeting Published by the Society for American Archaeology 900 Second Street NE, Suite 12 Washington DC 20002-3560 USA Tel: +1 202/789-8200 Fax: +1 202/789-0284 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://www.saa.org Copyright © 2011 Society for American Archaeology. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher. Program of the 76th Annual Meeting 3 Contents 4................ Awards Presentation & Annual Business Meeting Agenda 5………..….2011 Award Recipients 11.................Maps of the Hyatt Regency Sacramento, Sheraton Grand Sacramento, and the Sacramento Convention Center 17 ................Meeting Organizers, SAA Board of Directors, & SAA Staff 18 ............... General Information . 20. .............. Featured Sessions 22 ............... Summary Schedule 26 ............... A Word about the Sessions 28…………. Student Events 29………..…Sessions At A Glance (NEW!) 37................ Program 169................SAA Awards, Scholarships, & Fellowships 176................ Presidents of SAA . 176................ Annual Meeting Sites 178................ Exhibit Map 179................Exhibitor Directory 190................SAA Committees and Task Forces 194…….…….Index of Participants 4 Program of the 76th Annual Meeting Awards Presentation & Annual Business Meeting APRIL 1, 2011 5 PM Call to Order Call for Approval of Minutes of the 2010 Annual Business Meeting Remarks President Margaret W. Conkey Reports Treasurer Christopher D. Dore Secretary Barbara J. Mills Executive Director Tobi A. Brimsek 5:30 PM Presentation of Awards Presidential Recognition Awards Gene Stuart Award Student Poster Award Archaeology Week Poster Award Student Paper Award Ethics Bowl Trophy Scholarships & Fellowships Dissertation Award Book Awards Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis Award for Excellence in Cultural Resource Management Crabtree Award Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research Excellence in Latin American and Caribbean Archaeology Lifetime Achievement Award New Business Ceremonial Resolutions Transfer of Presidential Office Remarks President William F. “Fred” Limp 6:30 PM Adjournment Program of the 76th Annual Meeting 5 2011 AWARDS SAA award recipients are selected by individual committees of SAA members— one for each award. The Board of Directors wishes to thank the award committees for their hard work and excellent selections, and to encourage any members who have an interest in a particular award to volunteer to serve on a future committee. PRESIDENTIAL RECOGNITION AWARD Recipient: Paul Minnis For his unstinting attention to the SAA Press and for his creative approach to bringing the most current ideas and issues to the membership through our publications. Despite the challenges at a transitional time in print publication, his humor, his good sense, and his flexibility have made this a productive time in SAA publications. PRESIDENTIAL RECOGNITION AWARD Recipient: Jonathan Muller For his dedication to the memorializing of our deceased members over many years, for his always reliable and comprehensive gathering of their names, and for his appropriately serious and reverent presentations at the annual meetings. PRESIDENTIAL RECOGNITION AWARD Recipient: Susan B. Bruning For her dedication to the understanding of and advising on one of the most important, always evolving, and challenging issues, namely, repatriation; her articulate and fair insights and assessments; her committee leadership and willingness to travel for the best interests of the Society; and for her professionalism, sense of equity and balance, and always timely advice. GENE STUART AWARD Recipient: Dan Vergano Dan Vergano, an award-winning science reporter for the national daily newspaper USA TODAY, has earned the 2011 Gene S. Stuart Award for his interesting, thoughtful, and authoritative writing about problem-oriented archaeological research in the Puuc region of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. “So long, said the Maya” and its online version present the reader with a no- nonsense yet engaging view of important research questions explored from the perspective of the Kiuic site in the Yucatan. Vergano blends his astute reporting with the authority of individual archaeological investigators and their assessment of archaeological evidence to involve the reader in exploring rapid abandonments of some Maya sites. His discussion of archaeological evidence in the contexts of time, physical and social environments, and culture enable the reader to connect the analysis of the site with the complex processes of change in the Yucatan and elsewhere. STUDENT POSTER AWARD Recipients: Alexander Smith and Danielle Raad Alexander Smith and Danielle Raad have earned the 2011 SAA Student Poster 6 Program of the 76th Annual Meeting Award for their poster submission entitled “The Metallurgy of Iron Mine Hill: The Use of Cumberlandite in Colonial Iron Artifacts from Rhode Island.” The poster presented original research on colonial iron artifacts from Rhode Island that utilized new technologies for examining the chemical signature of a particular local iron ore, cumberlandite. Iron artifacts from two archaeological sites, Green Farm and Potowomut, were examined and the relative frequencies of certain elements were compared allowing the authors to make arguments about the use of certain iron ore sources. This innovative research project will provide a platform for future studies and contributes to our understanding of colonial metallurgy. DIENJE KENYON FELLOWSHIP Recipient: Carla Hadden, University of Georgia FRED PLOG MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP Recipient: William Reitze, University of Arizona DOUGLAS KELLOGG FELLOWSHIP Recipient: Teresa Wriston, University of Nevada - Reno ARTHUR C. PARKER SCHOLARSHIP FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRAINING FOR NATIVE AMERICANS AND NATIVE HAWAIIANS Recipient: Kamakana Christian Ferreira (Native Hawaiian) NSF SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRAINING FOR NATIVE AMERICANS AND NATIVE HAWAIIANS Recipient: Robert James David (Klamath) Recipient: Kevin J. Brown,(Navajo Nation) Recipient: Liana Staci Hesler (Ponca) SAA NATIVE AMERICAN UNDERGRADUATE ARCHAEOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP Recipient: Garrett W. Briggs (Southern Ute) SAA NATIVE AMERICAN GRADUATE ARCHAEOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP Recipient: Frank James Raslich (Saginaw Chippewa) STUDENT PAPER AWARD Recipients: Melanie Beasley, Jack Meyer, Eric J. Bartelink, and Randy Miller Through their well-written and argued paper titled “Human Bone Diagenesis in a Prehistoric Burial Mound from the Central California Delta: Bioarchaeological and Geoarchaeological Approaches,” Melanie Beasley, Jack Meyer, Eric J. Bartelink, and Randy Miller contribute to both site-specific and potentially discipline-wide archaeological investigations. Using real world examples, they demonstrate the utility of geoarchaeology for selecting viable samples of human bone for stable isotope analysis. As they state explicitly, their methods are useful not just for understanding cultural and geological histories of individual sites; they also enable archaeologists to make the most of limited funding and field time, and to select only the most information-rich human bones for invasive analyses. Program of the 76th Annual Meeting 7 DISSERTATION AWARD Recipient: Scott G. Ortman Scott Ortman’s dissertation, Genes, Language, and Culture in Tewa Ethnogenesis, A.D. 1150-1400 (Arizona State University, 2010), is a multistranded study of the depopulation of the Mesa Verde region, and the origins of the Tewa People. Through meticulous study of archaeological material, skeletal remains, ethnography, and linguistic data, the author establishes that Tewa origins lay in a massive migration from the Mesa Verde region. This exodus likely stemmed from the rise of a religious movement against the increasing social hierarchy at Mesa Verde. To reconstruct Tewa ethnogenesis, the author traces Tewa biological, linguistic, and cultural inheritance, weaving diverse bodies of contemporary theory in multiple disciplines with original approaches, including a pioneering method for discerning conceptual metaphors in material culture. The dissertation exemplifies how a study focused on a particular question in prehistory can be a basis for a signal theoretical contribution to the anthropology of social change. BOOK AWARDS The Society for American Archaeology annually awards a prize honoring a recently published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research, and/or is expected to make a substantial contribution to the archaeology of an area. The Society for American Archaeology also annually recognizes a book that has made, or is expected to make, a substantial contribution to the presentation of the goals, methods, and results of archaeological research to a more general public. BOOK AWARD Recipient: Vernon James Knight, Jr., Mound Excavations at Moundville: Architecture, Elites, and Social Order Mound Excavations at Moundville: Architecture, Elites, and Social Order presents the results of a long-term research project